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Alabama county files for largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history

Published 11/10/2011, Associated Press

Alabama's most populous county filed what became the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in an effort to retake control of its beleaguered sewer system and wipe away as much of its whopping $4.15 billion in debt as possible.

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